Name: Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age
Date: 21 June 2016, 8:30 - 21:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Howard Hotson (University of Oxford),
Dr Robert McNamee (University of Oxford),
Dr Alison Pearn (University of Cambridge),
Miranda Lewis (University of Oxford, History Faculty),
Dr Daniel Starza Smith (University of Oxford),
Mike Webb (Bodleian Libraries),
Rupert Mann (Oxford University Press),
Dr Philip Beeley (University of Oxford),
Kieron Smith (Blackwell's Digital Department),
Professor Christopher Ricks (Boston University),
Jacqueline Norton (OUP Academic)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Weston Lecture Theatre (evening events at Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College)
Organisers:
Michaela Crawley (University of Oxford),
Helen Brown (University of Oxford),
Olivia Thompson (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute (Balliol College, Oxford),
Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford),
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 30 April 2019
Colloquium: 'Imagining Madness'
Date: 30 April 2019, 13:30 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Jane Garnett (Wadham College, Oxford),
Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford),
John Hopkins (Homerton College),
Penelope Cave (Wolfson College, Oxford),
Neil Armstrong (ISCA, Oxford),
Heather Clark (University of Huddersfield)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 11 February 2020
Writing Queer Lives
Date: 11 February 2020, 13:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Jane Traies
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Ellmann’s Joyce: A Biography
Date: 25 February 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Zachary Leader
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 9 March 2020
Book Launch: Lives of Houses
Date: 9 March 2020, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford),
Jenny Uglow,
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))
Venue Details: The Chancellor’s Hall
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Andy Warhol Hated Campbell’s Soup… and other lies of the master
Date: 10 March 2020, 13:15 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Blake Gopnik
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 13 March 2020
Royal Biography
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Catriona Seth (University of Oxford),
Jane Ridley,
Tor Rem,
Hannah Yelin
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 16 March 2020
Maternity, Life Writing, Fiction
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford),
Dr Sarah Moss (University of Warwick),
Sarah Knott (Associate Professor of History Indiana University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 20 March 2020
Benjamin Zephaniah
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 20 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Benjamin Zephaniah,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Malachi McIntosh
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Saturday 28 March 2020
Lives of Houses
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Professor Roy Foster (Hertford college, University of Oxford),
Professor Alexandra Harris (University of Birmingham),
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Unheard Music: talks and discussion
Date: 23 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Robert Brewer Young,
Matthew Sheeran
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Sally Bayley in conversation with Eleonora Maio
Date: 30 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker
s:
Eleonora Maio (University of Palermo),
Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Book Launch: The Song of the Whole Wide World
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Creation in the Life and Art of Berta Rosenbaum Golahny
Date: 7 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and online via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 10 May 2024
Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave
Date: 10 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Professor Marina Mackay (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: "The 'Real' Yentl: The Letters of Esther Kreitman"
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Online Research Network: Catherine Coldstream and Dr Felicity James
Date: 29 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Catherine Coldstream,
Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 31 May 2024
Laura Marcus Workshop: 'Nuts and Bolts: searches and discoveries in Life-Writing'
Date: 31 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 11 June 2024
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Thinking about Women and the Holocaust
Date: 11 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 19 June 2024
Sir Stephen Hough in Conversation
Date: 19 June 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Sir Stephen Hough,
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/holywell-music-room-0
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 13 September 2024
Prof Goutham Rao, 'Writing for Wellness' Workshop
Date: 13 September 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Prof Goutham Rao (Case Western Reserve University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Online via Zoom only
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Sunday 29 September 2024
Dr Kate Kennedy, 'Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound’
Date: 29 September 2024, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator)),
Natalie Clein (Cellist),
Cheryl Francis-Hoad (Composer)
Venue Details: Wigmore Hall, London
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Thursday 3 October 2024
Jen Sookfong Lee and Sasha Colby, 'Write Local/Think National'
Date: 3 October 2024, 2:00 - 03:15
Speaker
s:
Jen Sookfong Lee,
Prof Sasha Colby (Simon Fraser University)
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Saturday 5 October 2024
Academic Writing: Margaret MacMillan in conversation with Kate Kennedy
Date: 5 October 2024, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford),
Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford),
Alice Little (Music Faculty)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 8 October 2024
Dr Dana Mills, 'Dissenting Against War and Colonialism in Writing and in Action'
Date: 8 October 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Dr Dana Mills (+972 Magazine)
Venue: Buttery,
Venue Details: Wolfson College. Accessibility: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/large-conference-and-dining-spaces/
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Ian Hembrow, 'Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees’ Book Launch
Date: 15 October 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Ian Hembrow
Venue: Buttery,
Venue Details: Wolfson College and Online via Zoom. Accessibility: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/large-conference-and-dining-spaces/
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Gwyneth Lewis, 'Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling'
Date: 22 October 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Gwyneth Lewis
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Wolfson College. Accessibility: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/large-conference-and-dining-spaces/
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 1 November 2024
Professor Santanu Das, 'E.M.Forster and Mohammed El Adl: leads, clues and muddles'
Date: 1 November 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/map-directions
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 12 November 2024
Life-Writing Research Skills: Life-Writing with Government and On-Line Databases
Date: 12 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Victoria Phillips
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 26 November 2024
Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs, 'Radical Women of the Jewish East End'
Date: 26 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Nadia Valman (Queen Mary, University of London),
Dr Vivi Lachs (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
Date: 14 January 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford),
Dr Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria),
Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford),
Professor Elizabeth Leane (College of Arts, Law and Education),
Dr Joanna Price (Liverpool John Moores University),
Dr Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 7 February 2025
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: 'Judith Shakespeare: Her Story' with Professor Laurie Maguire
Date: 7 February 2025, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
s:
Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford),
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 18 February 2025
Weinrebe Lecture: Richard Ovenden in Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Richard Ovenden, OBE (Professorial Fellow and Bodley's Librarian),
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Telling Middle Eastern Lives
Date: 4 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University),
Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College),
Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut)
Venue: Buttery,
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 7 March 2025
Ann Wroe, 'Catching Souls'. In Conversation with Dr Victoria Phillips
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Dr Ann Wroe (The Economist),
Victoria Phillips
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: And via Zoom. Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 10 November 2015
‘Fame and Fortune: On Writing a New Life of Tchaikovsky’.
Date: 10 November 2015, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Philip Bullock
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 May 2016
Life-Writing Event - Ruth Scurr: "John Aubrey"
Date: 10 May 2016, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ruth Scurr
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 29 November 2018
Workshop: 'Writing Madness'
Date: 29 November 2018, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker
:
Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 April 2019
Colloquium: 'Imagining Madness'
Date: 30 April 2019, 13:30 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Jane Garnett (Wadham College, Oxford),
Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford),
John Hopkins (Homerton College),
Penelope Cave (Wolfson College, Oxford),
Neil Armstrong (ISCA, Oxford),
Heather Clark (University of Huddersfield)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Thursday 10 October 2019
Death in Venice
Date: 10 October 2019, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Mark Padmore,
Colin Matthews,
Prof Henry Bacon (University of Helsinki),
Dr Raymond Ockenden (Wadham College),
Dr John Hopkins (Homerton College),
Dr Bretton Brown,
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator)),
Professor Philip Bullock (Director, TORCH)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))
Monday 14 October 2019
Claudio Santoro: 100 Years
Date: 14 October 2019, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Alessandro Santoro (EMESP (São Paulo)),
Gabriella Di Laccio,
Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho (King's College London)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Olivia Laing In Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 5 November 2019, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Olivia Laing
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Olivia Laing In Conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 5 November 2019, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Olivia Laing,
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Life-Writing Surgery with Sally Bayley and Tony Gray
Date: 19 November 2019, 13:15 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall),
Tony Gray
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
The Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing: Lucasta Miller
Date: 19 November 2019, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Lucasta Miller
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 2 December 2019
The Biographer and the Wife
Date: 2 December 2019, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford),
Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Haldane Room
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 February 2020
Writing Queer Lives
Date: 11 February 2020, 13:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Jane Traies
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Ellmann’s Joyce: A Biography
Date: 25 February 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Zachary Leader
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 9 March 2020
Book Launch: Lives of Houses
Date: 9 March 2020, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford),
Jenny Uglow,
Dr Kate Kennedy (broadcaster and historian (narrator))
Venue Details: The Chancellor’s Hall
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Andy Warhol Hated Campbell’s Soup… and other lies of the master
Date: 10 March 2020, 13:15 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Blake Gopnik
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 13 March 2020
Royal Biography
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Catriona Seth (University of Oxford),
Jane Ridley,
Tor Rem,
Hannah Yelin
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 16 March 2020
Maternity, Life Writing, Fiction
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford),
Dr Sarah Moss (University of Warwick),
Sarah Knott (Associate Professor of History Indiana University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 20 March 2020
Benjamin Zephaniah
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 20 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Benjamin Zephaniah,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Malachi McIntosh
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Saturday 28 March 2020
Lives of Houses
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford),
Professor Roy Foster (Hertford college, University of Oxford),
Professor Alexandra Harris (University of Birmingham),
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Day Colloquium: Writing Jewish Women's Lives
Date: 17 October 2023, 10:00 - 18:15
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 October 2023
The Gentlewoman from Reedham: Re-encountering Margaret Paston through her Letters, in the 21st century
Date: 24 October 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Professor Diane Watt (University of Surrey)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
'Thou wast not born for death': Keats and the Living Art of Writing Literary Lives
Date: 24 October 2023, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Lucasta Miller
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Workshop on Publishing Non-Fiction
Date: 31 October 2023, 13:30 - 20:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Weinrebe Lecture: Blake Morrison in conversation with Hermione Lee: Two Sisters and the Art of Life-Writing
Date: 31 October 2023, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Blake Morrison
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Writing Jewish Women's Lives: Literary Salon 1
Date: 7 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Rebecca Abrams
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2023
'I so shaped out my walk': Charles Dickens's perambulatory patterns
Date: 14 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Helena Kelly
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 November 2023
OCLW Research Network Seminar 3: Rewriting Women's Lives
Date: 15 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Donner,
Dr. Pragya Agarwal
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 17 November 2023
Brigitta Olubas on Shirley Hazzard
Date: 17 November 2023, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Brigitta Olubas (University of New South Wales)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 November 2023
Writing Jewish Women's Lives with Natasha Walter: Literary Salon 2
Date: 21 November 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Abrams,
Natasha Walter
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Clare Carlisle on George Eliot, Kierkegaard, and Life Writing
Date: 21 November 2023, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Clare Carlisle
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 December 2023
The Legacies of Nelson Mandela: Ten Years On
Date: 5 December 2023, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Elleke Boehmer,
Tinashe Mushakavanhu,
Jonny Steinberg,
Maxim Bolt
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 22 January 2024
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 1
Date: 22 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Beyond Music series: Dame Imogen Cooper in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
Date: 23 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Dame Imogen Cooper,
Dr Kate Kennedy
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 January 2024
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: Meriel Schindler in conversation with Rebecca Abrams
Date: 30 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Abrams,
Muriel Schindler
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 2 February 2024
Laura Marcus Workshop: Datafied Lives: Life-Writing, Publishing, and the Archive in the Digital Age
Date: 2 February 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
s:
Sarah Ogilvie (Oxford),
Adam Guy (Oxford),
Kate Kennedy (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 5 February 2024
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 2
Date: 5 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Organisers:
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 13 February 2024
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: Losing the Dead and Other Writerly Intimacies
Date: 13 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Lisa Appignanesi,
Devorah Baum
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 February 2024
Weinrebe Lecture: Michael Ignatieff on Life-Writing, in conversation with Hermione Lee
Date: 15 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Hermione Lee,
Michael Ignatieff (Rector, Central European University)
Venue Details: Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG02
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 19 February 2024
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 3
Date: 19 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organisers:
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Sarah Ogilvie on The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Date: 20 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Sarah Ogilvie,
Professor Hermione Lee
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 21 February 2024
OCLW Research Network Seminar 4: Writing Believable Characters
Date: 21 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Michael Meyer,
Ada Ferrer (New York University)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 23 February 2024
Laura Marcus Workshop: Life-Writing and the Internet
Date: 23 February 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 February 2024
BOOK LAUNCH: A DIRTY, FILTHY BOOK: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
Date: 27 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Michael Meyer
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 4 March 2024
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 4
Date: 4 March 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organisers:
TORCH (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 March 2024
Triggering Biography: Race, Gender, Politics, Disabilities
Date: 5 March 2024, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Clare Coss,
Denise Lynn,
Victoria Phillips
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy-five: a global promise of peace dignity education work for every body
Date: 5 March 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Blanche Cook
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Colloquium
Date: 12 March 2024, 10:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Unheard Music: talks and discussion
Date: 23 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Robert Brewer Young,
Matthew Sheeran
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Sally Bayley in conversation with Eleonora Maio
Date: 30 April 2024, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker
s:
Eleonora Maio (University of Palermo),
Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Book Launch: The Song of the Whole Wide World
Date: 30 April 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Tamarin Norwood (Oxford Centre for Life Writing)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Creation in the Life and Art of Berta Rosenbaum Golahny
Date: 7 May 2024, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and online via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 10 May 2024
Laura Marcus Workshop: Autobiographical Fiction and the 1950s Telepathy Wave
Date: 10 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Professor Marina Mackay (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 13 May 2024
Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Trinity Term 2024, Session 2)
Date: 13 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar: "The 'Real' Yentl: The Letters of Esther Kreitman"
Date: 21 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 28 May 2024
Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Trinity Term 2024, Session 3)
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Online Research Network: Catherine Coldstream and Dr Felicity James
Date: 29 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Catherine Coldstream,
Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 31 May 2024
Laura Marcus Workshop: 'Nuts and Bolts: searches and discoveries in Life-Writing'
Date: 31 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Monday 10 June 2024
Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group: Reading with Sally Bayley
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker
:
Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 11 June 2024
Writing Jewish Women's Lives Seminar: Thinking about Women and the Holocaust
Date: 11 June 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 19 June 2024
Sir Stephen Hough in Conversation
Date: 19 June 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Sir Stephen Hough,
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/holywell-music-room-0
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Thursday 3 October 2024
Jen Sookfong Lee and Sasha Colby, 'Write Local/Think National'
Date: 3 October 2024, 2:00 - 03:15
Speaker
s:
Jen Sookfong Lee,
Prof Sasha Colby (Simon Fraser University)
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 1 November 2024
Professor Santanu Das, 'E.M.Forster and Mohammed El Adl: leads, clues and muddles'
Date: 1 November 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/map-directions
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 12 November 2024
Life-Writing Research Skills: Life-Writing with Government and On-Line Databases
Date: 12 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Victoria Phillips
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 26 November 2024
Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs, 'Radical Women of the Jewish East End'
Date: 26 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Nadia Valman (Queen Mary, University of London),
Dr Vivi Lachs (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
Date: 14 January 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford),
Dr Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria),
Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford),
Professor Elizabeth Leane (College of Arts, Law and Education),
Dr Joanna Price (Liverpool John Moores University),
Dr Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Friday 7 February 2025
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: 'Judith Shakespeare: Her Story' with Professor Laurie Maguire
Date: 7 February 2025, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
s:
Laurie Maguire (University of Oxford),
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
